Carlo Michelstaedter Quotes

#1. The current situation reminds me too much of the fable of the
farmer whose chickens are dying. The local priest gives one remedy af-
ter another - prayers, potions, oaths - until all of the chickens are dead.
"Too bad," says the priest, "I had so many other good ideas.

Jeffrey D. Sachs

#2. Man 'knows', which is why he is always two : his life and his knowing.

Carlo Michelstaedter

#3. We are not any safer through the bulk collection of all Americans' records.

Ted Cruz

#4. My hand-stitched wings itch
to take flight
to test the winds of change
that inevitably blow
at the end
of a cycle.

B.G. Bowers

#5. My readiness to admit to my fallibility is perhaps rather English, but I hope that the problems I describe will be familiar to doctors and patients everywhere.

Henry Marsh

#6. Family is not always the people with whom you share DNA. Sometimes, family is the person who fights the hardest for your happiness.

Cassia Leo

#7. And yet is not mankind itself, pushing on its blind way, driven by a dream of its greatness and its power upon the dark paths of excessive cruelty and of excessive devotion. And what is the pursuit of truth, after all?

Joseph Conrad

#8. Sweet sixteen today. She's looking like her momma a little more every day.

Bob Carlisle